studyin! and pretty much sticking to it today... the light is at the end of the tunnel I tell you, cant quite see it yet, but you just sort of know when youre approaching it... f
funny how when i'm studying - all the online tutorials - and randomly i get these revelations, and its like 'oh! THATS why that does that rather than that... ooooh! i'm such a dummy"...
prime example: NaOH acts as a base or a nucleophile (ya, i just learned that too). whats the difference you ask? (or dont but you get to hear it anyways). well! when its a base it strips off the most acidic hydrogen. when its a nucleophile it attacks a electrophilic carbon. ITS THAT EASY. man. i really dont know how i made it through 2nd year organic.
not that i'm not smart - i really think i am (hehe) but somehow nothing clicked in this course. and as much as i can blame it on the wannabe proff's bad teaching, there is the element of my own incomprehension of the basics... like, you're never going to be able to do integrals if you cant do algebra. plain and simple. so, master the abc's before you try the xyz's.... or, in this case, better decide whats a nucleophile before you try and tackle the epoxide reaction. yeah baby yeah. bring it on dienols, BRING IT ON!
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